Darius Rucker Reuniting With Hootie and the Blowfish — See Tour Dates!

After a solo career that made him a country music superstar with hits like "Wagon Wheel," "Alright" and "If I Told You," Darius Rucker is reuniting with the band that got him started, Hootie & the Blowfish. They'll do a full tour in 2019.

The announcement was made on the Monday (Dec. 3) episode of the Today show.

"We're writing songs and we are in the studio and we are making a new album," Rucker says in the new interview. "For us making a record, we are not doing it for us. We are doing it for those people that planned their vacations around the Hootie & the Blowfish tour."

The 2019 Group Therapy Tour will take the band on a cross country trek of 44 cities. The band Barenaked Ladies will join them, opening the show.

"When we play 'Hold My Hand' or we play 'Let Her Cry' or we play 'Only Want to Be with You,' to hear that crowd?" Rucker says. "I'll play it every day. To still be doing that for 30 years? It's all gravy. I want to be there and do it just because we can."

"There is nothing like playing music live," adds Hootie & the Blowfish member Mark Bryan. "For the first time in nearly 20 years, we'll be coming back to Columbia, South Carolina where it all began."